From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Nov 17 2:45:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 018B114D15 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11o2af-0007SR-00; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:45:29 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA04634; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:45:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <3832872F.5F47F077@scc.nl> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:45:03 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealPlayer G2 for Linux: Initial Report References: <199911171008.CAA73167@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > That's not needed, because there's nothing wrong with RP G2 in this > > respect. > > Besides at least one of the FreeBSD multimedia folks went over to > Real Networks long time ago : Sujal Patel to head their Server > development and Real Audio stuff was first developed on FreeBSD. Cool! an infiltrant :-) > What we do need is to swamp Real Networks with requests for > a FreeBSD player. The Maketing Bean counters just simply > add up all the requests or perceived need for a given platform and > to decide to support a given platform. Yes, that would be nice. It certainly helps to make FreeBSD noticed on the desktop playground. Hmm, it makes me wonder what the outcome was of the `design a FreeBSD desktop' contest Jordan organized... Anyway, the more support for Linux, the better our changes eventually. And, emulation is better than nothing :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message